no you didn't just enter a time machine and wind up in the days of george w. bush, but you might as well have, my friends because the reasoning is eerily similar. tomorrow, when john brennan the president's nominee for c.i.a. director appears for the senate intelligence committee where he'll face tough drone-related questions, or maybe not at all. his appearance comes two days after the leak of the justice department's white paper which justified the administration's case for targeted killing of americans, and yet the use of drones remains extremely popular with 83% of americans including a vast majority of democrats supporting their use even against americans living in other countries. how popular are they? so popular they bring together the unlikeliest adversaries. >> i believe the president needs to have tools to deal with people like anwar al-arwak, i. >> no word on where his 16-year-old son was a thread. joining me now is the host of ring of fire. >> john: are you surprised? is this because the poll numbers have been tested so well. >> we saw this with ob